Thunderbolt
noun
1.
a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
2.
an imaginary bolt or dart conceived as the material destructive agent cast to earth in a flash of lightning:
the thunderbolts of Jove.
3.
something very destructive, terrible, severe, sudden, or startling.
4.
a person who acts with fury or with sudden and irresistible force.
noun
1.
a flash of lightning accompanying thunder
2.
the imagined agency of destruction produced by a flash of lightning
3.
(in mythology) the destructive weapon wielded by several gods, esp the Greek god Zeus See also Thor
4.
something very startling
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